Cases in new york cases skyrocket as more people are tested. Nonessential businesses in the big apple are required to keep three quarters of their staff at home. Only 25 can report to work on any given day. Brian but u. S. Senators will head to capitol hill to work on help. Today they will negotiate a 1 trilliondollar rescue deal, maybe more. To provide Financial Relief for all americans. Ainsley as the worlds most popular cities remain empty, there is some good news. 86,000 people have recovered from the virus worldwide. Steve meanwhile new reports also suggest that the number of people who died from covid19 in wuhan, china, the very starting place of this pandemic, is actually lower than was previously thought. Apparently, ainsley and brian, you know, initial estimates in february was that the mortality rate was 5. 8 . Well, now they have looked at the end of february and they said you know what . Its not almost 6 . Its 1. 4 at the end of february. Ainsley yesterday in the briefing the president said we look at the numbers. That is better news than we thought, but he did question whether or not we could trust those numbers. Brian right. Just keep in mind, too. Want math gets complicated but the more people you test the more people that recover the mortality rate goes lower. So its now thought to be 2 . Now down to 1 . And as these testing is more pervasive, that number should drop even more. As you see, we do have 86,000 people who have recovered after getting it. Ainsley you say the numbers will go higher but eventually drop. Brian more people get it but more people surviving which makes that number dip. Steve today would be day five of the administrations 15 days to stop the spread. We have 15 days of holding our breath. That is what dr. Oz told us yesterday. And as you can see he is going to be on the program today along with defense secretary mark esper. Dr. Marc siegel, dr. Nicole saphier and Country Music star john rich who has made the decision to pay everybody who works for him even though they are not working. Brian yeah. Its pretty tremendous. You just know these Small Business us if they are forced to do that some of them will have to shutter. Thats why the washington help has got to come right away and got to come to the Small Business and it better not be going to the pockets of those coos around the country. Steve they have to find a way to suffocate the pandemic without suffocating the economy. Brian yeah. Thats true. We will talk about that more over the next two hours and 57 minutes. Today negotiations are to begin on capitol hill. Over the 1 trilliondollar rescue deal and this crushing outbreak. Ainsley the white house is also working hand in hand with the fda for a brea break through treatment. Steve Griff Jenkins joins us from washington with where it stands right now. Republicans, 200 plus page idea has been floating around and today they are going to sit down and talk to the democrats, right . Griff thats right. We will get to that but quickly you mentioned that new drug thing. Let me clarify that the president is directing the fda to fast track Clinical Trials on drugs showing promise to combat covid19. In particular colo color quinn. Its. Its a common drug. Safety level has been relatively safe it showed really encouraging results. Griff fda commissioner who also will aggressively pursue that important to the to provide false hope. Negotiations are underway on the trilliondollar plus act. The phase three of the Economic Relief bill bringing direct Financial Aid to americans. Here is how those payments would break down. 1,200 to adults or 2400 for couples, plus 500 per child. However, there will be income caps, 99,000 for individual or 198,000 per couple. Also adds billions for Small Businesses or employees, healthcare professionals, Hard Hit Industries and some big businesses. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says we have got to act. Schumer and pelosi have concerns issuing a joint statement that says we are beginning to review senator mcconnells proposal and on First Reading it is not at all proworker and instead puts corporations way ahead of workers. That obviously a colonel, brian. You note. Now you have got the Top White House folks minute ne folk mnuc. Larry kudlow get some form everyone can agree upon. There is a real sense this has to happen by monday and it cannot sustain these volatile markets, guys . Steve griff, it sounds like politics is creeping back into it. Griff well it, certainly is, steve. The initial response from schumer was that he was upset he was left out of the drafting. But, that is traditional. Now, the question really is whether politics can get out of it by the time they are going to work over the weekend. Like i said, have you all the top guys secretary treasurer mnuchin, larry kudlow, hasset and nuland the nuts and bolts guys on this trying to get something they all agree on. We will see if it happens. Brian thanks, griff. You know whats amazing too. I know people can go to perspective corners thats the way we have been dealing with things over the years. Kind of cool when you see Governor Cuomo going out of his way to praise the president even when the mayor does and see ilhan omar say i looked at this package, i saw whats done already. And she went out of her way to tweet praise for the president. Steve she did, indeed. And so the president is, you know, i think its a good idea that they have these press conferences every day so that the American People can be up to date. Is he surrounded by his medical a team and all come up one at a time when appropriate to give us updates. And yesterday it was about these drugs that could be used and could be helpful a ray of hope. Ainsley yeah. He was talking about they looked at the map and they looked at where the numbers are down in certain countries and they thought why . Why are the numbers down there. And then they started looking at some of the drugs that people deal with or take there and malaria is a big issue in certain parts of the world. Some of those areas they are seeing lower numbers. Steve right. Ainsley started looking at malaria treatments and certain drugs he says he is going to try to fast track available to anyone with corona here in the country. They had their press briefing and we all watched it. Here is a clip from it if you didnt get to see it. I think there is a great spirit where the democrats, the republicans, and everybody else they are getting together and they are trying to get things done. But, most importantly, the American Public has been incredible. We taofrbgt best economy we have ever had and we said stop, you cant work. You have to stay home, you know. There has never been a case like this. Normally you pay a lot of money to get things going. Heres a case where we are paying a lot of money to stop things because we dont want people to be together. Nobody has ever seen anything like this we are doing the right thing. Our big war is not a financial war. Its a medical war. Weave to wiwe have to win this. Steve and he is now a war time president. As we have heard and this goes back over a week when there were limited tests. The more that the tests are becoming available, the higher the numbers are going to look. But dr. Fauci made it very clear we knew that all along. But the impact of people sequestering themselves and isolating and staying away by social distancing is having a real impact. He said it might not feel like it when you are sitting on the couch, but trust him, he says. This is how we can do it. Brian all right. So lets take a look at how many more fests we got. Testing in the u. S. Taps 100,000. 50 jump as promised by the Vice President in a 24hour period and just looking overall that means about 103,000 have been tested. An increase pretty significant and 89197 have tested negative. Waiting on 3025. One thing i see a variation some people say they got a call in two days. Others say waiting four days. One of the complaints from the governor in Conference Call. I love the president is doing that urge interests different from maryland all have the same focus. Listen, you got us the test. Now we need the agent thats going to give us the results of the test. Can he get that to us and get to us right away. Every hospital says we need more equipment. The defense mobilize things like g. M. Facilities in order to make more masks and more gowns and more of the medical equipment needed to treat everybody. Because we are anticipating more will need treatment. Ainsley the Vice President talked about that at the press briefing yesterday. He talked about all the Different Companies here locally or in the United States that make all the masks. And he said they are increasing a lot. So we are going to its going to take a little bit of time. But he is on it. Did you see the cover of the New York Post . This is so sad. This is a family in your state, steve, new jersey, four people died of the coronavirus in this one family. Steve yeah. They were just having regular tuesday dinner together there were a dozen people there and apparently one man in his 50s who had Underlying Health issues apparently also had the coronavirus. The number of that family all perished. It is a tragedy coming out of new jersey. Meanwhile, dr. , ambassador deborah birx made it more clear with more testing the numbers are going to go up. Watch. I know you are watching the data carefully. You can see the dramatic increases in the number of new cases. Based on our ability to test additional people. And this will continue over the next two to three days. I really want to applaud the front line healthcare workers. The nurses and the doctors and the testers that have really prioritized and the American People who prioritized those with symptoms. The number of tests positive is increasing. That is a dramatically important signature that everybody is doing their job. Brian shows that the test they have confidence in. Made it clear that the test was offered by the world hession offerings to us. They didnt have any confidence in the test. As far as they know they werent ao efpbl offered that test. When they first started the cdc and offered the test they had hiccups. Enough to they have one they have confidence in. Here is the great thing about having a test. You know if you are infected or not. You know when to quarantine and when not to quarantine as opposed to i dont feel great. Just to be sure im out. Now you can say pol pull back. Lets get ahold of them and continue. We cant get an action plan if we dont know the answer to the test let alone get a test. Thats what is so encouraging. Steve also i was reading in the New York Post this morning that apparently there is a company that is going to start selling through the mail a test you can do yourself. Do you, however, need a prescription. Yesterday, Lindsey Graham was on our program and then he was up late with hannity and he knows exactly what the prescription is on this virus. Listen. Were gonna counter attack the virus. Were gonna starve it, were gonna bomb it and we are going to kill it. The way you starve it, as you stop humantohuman transmission. Shroerbld starve the virus. The way you bomb it is drug therapies that you were talking about. We are going to bottom th bomb l out of it take it from a 10 to a 1 or 2 and eventually kill it with a vaccine meantime stabilize the economy and make sure you have income coming to the fact that you lost your job through no fault of your own but containment policies pay dividends paying for them now. Ainsley if you were watching the press briefing yesterday did you see the market continue to group as they assured the American People that we are going to get through this and melania released that psa yesterday saying we are not going to live like this forever. Watch this. That changes need to be made now, this is now how we will live forever. Our children will return to school. People will return to work. We will gather at the places of worship, concerts and sporting events again. I urge you to stay connected to family and looed ones through the video chats, phone calls, social media and other safe technologies. Stay safe. And, remember, while many of us are in part we are all indeed together. Steve thats a really good message. So many of us are in our houses kind of selfisolating and we feel so alone. But, just remember, there are people in millions of houses all around america and around the world doing the exact same thing because, according to the experts that social distancing, cleaning me from infecting you is how we bring this thing to a halt. Brian we are all doing the same thing so many people going to School Online slowing down the internet massively. Asking netflix to push back on streaming. That was a problem with my cable operator yesterday. They basically lost Internet Connection for a while because people are online doing anything. Whether they are communicating or actually in school. Ainsley yesterday at the Grocery Store. I go every day to walk in and pick up essentials or things im world about running out of it or just to check the shelves to see if they restocked things i want. They had a box extra large and one was medium. Everyone in the Grocery Store was wearing gloves and purell next to the gloves. Things have changed. Steve they have indeed. Its all about being safe. We have got to take care of ourselves because if we dont, who will. Ainsley do you guys think this is after this is all over, do you think more people, more business its we can save more money if people work from home. Steve 100 percent. We are trying to figure out how to get cameras into our houses how so we can do it. Brian i had to make my adjustment. I usually see jillian and rob. You guys had to do a show so i didnt get to see you. Jillian good morning. Yes, thats right. We have a daily meeting in the hallway with brian. Good morning. A look at your headlines. Lebanese prison is released. Suffering torturing palestinians when he served with lebanons military in the 1980s. He denies the accusation. President trump says he is on the way home. Im very grateful to the lebanese government, they worked with us and we are very proud of his family. They stood by him so strongly. Jillian an American Navy veteran is being temporarily released in iran amid the coronavirus outbreak. Michael white was let out of an iranian prison to get medical treatment. He has been detained since 2018. The state Department Says white was wrongly arrested. They are working toward his full release. 2020 hopeful joe biden picks up two big endorsements from former rivals. Im suspending my president ial campaign and offering my full support to Vice President joe biden in his quest to bring our country jillian hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard backing the former Vice President after dropping out of race. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is also endorsing biden. In connecticut coronavirus concerns just pushed back the april 28th primary to june. And then there is this story. Family celebrates their grandmas 95th birthday from a safe distance. Watch this. Happy birthday to you happy birthday dear grand imagine happy birthday to you jillian grandma burns sons and grandchildren all surprising her singing happy birthday on her front lawn as she stood on the porch quarantined in new york. She said she loved the surprise. Jillian they were standing about 5 feet apart too. Steve just shows you that the American People realize that people who are over 65. Particularly the elderly with Underlying Health issues we have got to isolate them and insulate them from people who can give them cv19. In that case its beautiful. Jillian but still celebrate. Brian i wonder if that will be phase out to normalcy. Certain age barack isolate for safety as opposed to the entire country. I wonder if thats how we scale back getting things up and about. Steve so much is still unknown. Thanks so much, jillian. 6 18 in new york city. With cv19 cases surging overseas. The u. S. Department of stated has issued its most dire travel warning possible. 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